Finally home from OLF

Well, I sure did have an interesting travel day today. I signed up for Flight Status Notifications from AA for my flight today, and checked my Blackberry when I was about ready to leave for the gate to find that my flight was delayed (from 11:10 to noon, not a big deal). Then I thought to look at my crackberry again, and found that the flight had cancelled...arrggghh. Called AA reservations, and they had automatically rebooked me on some crazy route going through Chicago. I figured that was the best they could do, and resigned myself to waiting 5 hours beyond my original flight time in the airport.

I went up to the AA lady at a gate (not my original gate, they'd taken care of everybody at the original time of the flight that I didn't show up at the gate for since it was delayed, right?). Shew as like "where have you been, we took care of everyone from that flight earlier...", I explained that because of the delay, I hadn't bothered to even check further on it til I was to head for my gate, and found that it was cancelled.

Anyhow, the lady was real nice, and booked me on a USAirways Express flight from CMH to LGA, which worked out nicely. I got on the plane, and the flight attendant told me that in order to get a Coke, it'd cost me $2. I didn't think that this was a great deal of money, but I figured that for $2, I'd get a 20oz bottle, not the 12oz can. How wrong I was! Had to have been the most expensive Coke I've ever had! It was good though.

Moral of the story:

1) Show up on time for your flight, even if you know it's late.
2) Never buy a Coke on USAirways again, unless you like being ripped off.